Allow Conflict To Run Its Course

August 3, 2002

Re the July 27 article, "Study: Palestinian kids malnourished": Throughout history, the siege of an enemy population has been an accepted tactic of war. An enemy population is surrounded and starved into submission. No one is killed directly and whenever their limit is reached, they may surrender. Hostilities end, and the two parties can make peace as no one wishes an endless cycle of war.

Only in the Arab/Israeli conflict is the process not allowed to run its course. The horror is that the conflict is never allowed to end. The Arabs are repeatedly saved from defeat, only to be returned to continue their insane war, which they never will win.

Only the Arab mind of Hanan Ashrawi could speak about this malnutrition without confronting its source in their heroic, self-declared intifada.

Arab suicide bombers may slaughter Jews at will, but what has this to do with the need for Palestinians to work and feed their families?

It is difficult to comprehend this lack of reality in the Arab mind-set. If you are hungry, find some way to feed yourself or surrender and end this insane conflict. Your pride may be hurt but your children will be fed.